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“However we remain alert to any issues and have a well-established process in place to alert all necessary agencies should the picture change.”

In its prescribed form Fentanyl can come as patches, tablets, lozenges, nasal sprays and injections.

But as it becomes a more common recreational drug it has been reported it is killing eight times as many people as heroin is in various American states and is a particular problem in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Ohio.